Immersion Chiller 5 min cool time!!
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I'm an ignorant American, sorry.
lol, its 77 us dollar and 50 f!
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So your tap water is 77F and cooled that quickly? Surprising.
That's a great price to build a chiller like that, congrats.
Looks like the piping is a thicker gauge and has a large contact area with the wort, very nice!
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So your tap water is 77F and cooled that quickly? Surprising.
That's a great price to build a chiller like that, congrats.
Looks like the piping is a thicker gauge and has a large contact area with the wort, very nice!
thanks,but its 50 degres and 77 $ !
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OP: 10C is cold. At that temp though I am surprised to hear of a 5 minute cool if you're talking about a full 5 gallons of wort. I did it in about 21 minutes and water was 42F. Though your chiller may just be better built.
Jesus... that's some weird dyslexia I got going on, but that makes much more sense. Either way, congrats on a kick-ass chiller!
LovesIPA
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Mine chills in about 30 minutes and my tap water is mid-fifites. What temperature are you chilling it to? After 5 minutes I'm only down in the low 100's.
Something tells me there is a backstory to this response.
OP: 10C is cold. At that temp though I am surprised to hear of a 5 minute cool if you're talking about a full 5 gallons of wort. I did it in about 21 minutes and water was 42F. Though your chiller may just be better built.
yeah i was suprised too,did your chiller is made in 1/2 inch pipe?theres a big difference in contact surface between the 3/8 and 1/2 inch pipe.
I have a 50' 5/8 whirlpool chiller and I can hit 6 min to chill a 5 gallon batch but that's using slush water and a sump pump, pretty sure the OPs numbers a stretched a little. although guess it is never stated what it is chilled to. I chill to 60 - 65f
Another factor is HOW you chill. If you gently stir the wort and move the chiller around (in and out) rather than letting it just sit there, you can drastically reduce chilling time. Maybe you are doing this, maybe not, I don't know.
I have a 50' - 3/8" chiller and with using a wine degasser to stir and lifting the chiller up and down I can chill 5 gallons of wort pretty quickly to 70F. I can get it down in about 10-15min tops. To start I go very easy to not introduce a lot of oxygen while the wort is hot. As it cools I speed up and get aggressive with the stirring.
If I just let the chiller sit in the hot wort with no movement, it can take well over 30-45 minutes.
I have a 50' - 3/8" chiller and with using a wine degasser to stir and lifting the chiller up and down I can chill 5 gallons of wort pretty quickly to 70F. I can get it down in about 10-15min tops. To start I go very easy to not introduce a lot of oxygen while the wort is hot. As it cools I speed up and get aggressive with the stirring.
If I just let the chiller sit in the hot wort with no movement, it can take well over 30-45 minutes.
yeah i stir it.
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I have a 3/8 50' copper chiller I made in my workshop, I also stir the wort with the chiller and the water coming out of the discharge hose is piping hot, when it cools down a little I stir some more.
I've never kept track but I'm fairly certain it's around 8 minutes or so to cool 5 gallons of boiling wort to 75-80 degrees. This is ofc using water from our hose bib in winter... that might play a factor but stirring is the obvious accelerator.
Ohh, and the 50' of copper cost me around $45, the fitting I used for the hose bib (well, 2 fittings to compensate for the size) cost around $8. All in the project cost around $50-$55, not too bad
I've never kept track but I'm fairly certain it's around 8 minutes or so to cool 5 gallons of boiling wort to 75-80 degrees. This is ofc using water from our hose bib in winter... that might play a factor but stirring is the obvious accelerator.
Ohh, and the 50' of copper cost me around $45, the fitting I used for the hose bib (well, 2 fittings to compensate for the size) cost around $8. All in the project cost around $50-$55, not too bad
horseinmay
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If you use a pump to recirculate the wort, you can get it to chill as fast, or even faster, than a counterflow chiller.
http://www.mrmalty.com/chiller.php
http://www.mrmalty.com/chiller.php
Thedutchtouch
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60 feet of 3/8 here, with a 5 gal batch, I'd guess only about 25-30 feet under wort. Chills from boiling to 70F in 7 min with Chicago tap water (38 degrees F)
